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Arsene Wenger has accused Europe's leading clubs of 'tapping up' his players, just as Emmanuel Adebayor agrees a new contract worth around £70,000-a-week at the club.
Wenger is angry at repeated comments from the likes of AC Milan and Barcelona about players such as Adebayor, who has been linked with a move away from London for much of the summer.
"There is a game going on in Europe where the big clubs tap up our players," Wenger said in The Times.
"They let us do the work and develop the players and then they think they can just come in and offer them big wages, but after they cannot come up with the transfer fee. It should be the other way round."
Indeed, Barcelona sporting director Txiki Bergiristain continued their apparent pursuit of the Togo striker yesterday, when he told Sky Sports News:
"Adebayor is one of the biggest players in football at the moment. There are possibly four or five strikers who could come to our club, one of biggest in Europe, and of course Adebayor is one of them."
Edited by omgukilledkenny 03 Aug `08, 4:31PM
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he taps up kids to mould them into superstars and give them the opportunity to be the cream of the crop. imagine if cesc was left rotting at Barca's bench. will he be developed like what he is today? i don't think so. kids need the exposure to excel and Arsenal is the best place to grow and train.
the other European teams do not train, do not mould footballers... they just trying to lure "moulded" players by offering them big salary when they cannot come up with the huge transfer fees. they do not "help" to develop players, they actually destroy them. look at Anelka. his future was "destroyed" after he went to Real Madrid.
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